Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-08
Science and Industry.

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Expert girls making the first quality
of mems linen collars can, in the Troy
factories, for instance. earn from $25
to $50 per week.
1t has been ascertalned that a numb-
ing action, similar to that of cocaine,
is produced by the external application
TO the body of the wellknown intoxi-
eating drinks of the South Sea Island
ers called kava.
Some unpublished letters from Luz
Their to Brenz and five from Melanchton
to the Swabian refo -mer Lachmann
have been found in an ola desk in a
school mt Hebron.
The respectable sum of 500, 00o a
year is expended by the government of
Cuba for chemical analyses in cases of
suspected poisoning and all kinds of
medico-legai nvestigations.-Arkan
saw traveller.
The interest on the legacy of ten
thousand dollars, ~bequeathed to the
Paris Academy of Sciences by Gitfard,
the well known inventor, will be used
to assist worthy men of learning who
are in temporary financial straits.
Mr.. G Murray, who recently made
a botanical trip to West Indian island
of Grenada, found the razor grass in
one place so thick and sharp that in
passing through it his hands, face and
wrists were scanned with bleeding cuts.
Recent delicate scientific expert
ments have discovered the fact that the
surface Of the land is never absolutely
at rest for more than thirty bours at a
time, Thus, those great earthquakes
which make epochs in history are mere
ly extreme eases of forces that seldom
sleep.-Public Opinion.
How much rain must fall in the
course of the day to make it a rainy
day IN the meteorological senseP This
question has been discussed a GOOD
deal hv persons interested in weather
science. but not yet determined au.
thoritatively. The weight of opinion
seems to be that a rainfall amounting
ut least TO one-hundredth part of IN
inch is necessary to make a rainy day.
N. Y. Ledger.
During the past season 80 600, 0OC
cucumbers have been picked in one
factory at Fredericksburg, Va. One
acre will produce on an average 1O0,'
600 cucumbers, and they sell read ~ in
the city at 50 cents per 1000. They
are usually picked when not more thar
an inch or an inch and a half long
One person can gather in 5000 IN 9
day.
The Prussian Society for the promo
ton of industry has offered two prizes
the competition for one to close witt
1897, and for the other with 1888
The first prize is about $3.50, for tn
most exhaustive critical comparison @
all kinds of existing bronze, tomba'
| and brass alloys, used or recommended
for machinery; the second is 1920 TO
the best work on light and neat radi
alton OF burning gases.-ArkansaV
Traveller.
A French savant has propounded
theory that coal was originally a liqui'
generated by the decomposition OF IN
terror vegetation in an a%tmospher
highly charged with carbon acid. Th
carbon of the jelly-like mass jus
formed, after passing through variou
transformations into asphalt, petro
Ieum. bitumen, etc, finally assume
the form of coal. The author cites va
rious facts connected with the occur
renee OF coal which, he thinks, ar
better explained on this theory than b
the usual one.-Punlic Opinion.
Mr.. Desire Chamay, the Centra
American traveller, asserts that tn
c%oncentric circles shown in logs of nj
hogany and many other tropical wood
correspond to so many months
growth, rather than to Ii year eacl
rs is generally supposed. ''in my tir'
expedition to P%alenque,' he says, 81
1859, | had the east side of the palac
cleared of its dense vegetation, to 81
cure a good photograph. Consequen
by the trees that have grown up sine
tup to 1882 cannot be more tha
twenty-five years old. Now, n I
the cuttings, measuring some 'wo fe'
in diameter. had upward of two hui
dred and thirty concentrlc CIRCLES
Y. Ledger.
The Mississippi Valley Lumberms
thinks that the output of the mills {
streams tributary 10 the upper Missi
. sippi which depend upon water
float their logs to them will this ye'
be from 33 to so per cent less tns
common. But the same lack OF ra
has diminished the ability OF the fari
I ers, and of those who live by tradir
, with the farmers, to buy lumber.
: almost an equal extent j IN a conside
| able part of the region TO which {
lumber is commonly sent. Indeed,
p amount of rain which would material
$ benefit crops would, especially after
0 long drought, do almost nothing
start "hung-vp" logs down stream.